Visual Studio 2013 publish crash after newest windows 10 update

Question

I used to use VS2013 and set up my profile to publish web project. It was working as expected in windows 10 until I installed the newest update for windows 10 last night.

Now every time I publish my project then popup says visual studio has stopped working and restarted itself.

I tried clean my project and rebuild, delete profile and import new one. re-install and get the latest Visaul Studio update. None of them worked.

Exception:

System.StackOverflowException was unhandled Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

In Event log:

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 12.0.21005.1, time stamp: 0x524fcb34 Faulting module name: MSVCR120_CLR0400.dll, version: 12.0.52512.0, time stamp: 0x5525ef9d Exception code: 0xc00000fd Fault offset: 0x0007e1a8 Faulting process id: 0x1128 Faulting application start time: 0x01d11f4665107d6c Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\MSVCR120_CLR0400.dll Report Id: 6bfdab62-235e-4e00-b23e-4312cf3f276a Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

Details:

devenv.exe 12.0.21005.1 524fcb34 MSVCR120_CLR0400.dll 12.0.52512.0 5525ef9d c00000fd 0007e1a8 1128 01d11f4665107d6c C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\MSVCR120_CLR0400.dll 6bfdab62-235e-4e00-b23e-4312cf3f276a

I still have no idea why it crashed, please shed some light if anyone knows anything, thanks!

There are a couple exception before the stack overflow exception which lead to crash. This is the call stack of first exception after I right click project

mscorlib.dll!System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(object key, object nvalue, bool add)   Unknown
mscorlib.dll!System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(object key, object value) Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.AutomationExtenderManager.GetExtenders(EnvDTE.ObjectExtenders extensionMgr = COM Object, string catID = "{4EF9F003-DE95-4d60-96B0-212979F2A857}", object extendee, System.Collections.Hashtable ht = Count = 1)   Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.AutomationExtenderManager.GetExtendedObjects(object[] selectedObjects = {object[1]})  Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.PropertyBrowser.Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.ILocalPbrsService.GetProcessedObject(object component) Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.VSPropertiesTab.GetProperties(System.ComponentModel.ITypeDescriptorContext context = {System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.SingleSelectRootGridEntry}, object component, System.Attribute[] attributes = {System.Attribute[1]})  Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.GridEntry.GetPropEntries(System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.GridEntry peParent = {System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.SingleSelectRootGridEntry}, object obj = COM Object, System.Type objType = {Name = Inspecting the state of an object in the debuggee of type System.Type is not supported in this context. FullName = Inspecting the state of an object in the debuggee of type System.Type is not supported in this context.})   Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.GridEntry.CreateChildren(bool diffOldChildren = false)   Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.SingleSelectRootGridEntry.CreateChildren()   Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.GridEntry.InternalExpanded.set(bool value)   Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.GridEntry.Create(System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal.PropertyGridView view, object[] rgobjs, System.IServiceProvider baseProvider, System.ComponentModel.Design.IDesignerHost currentHost, System.Windows.Forms.Design.PropertyTab tab, System.Windows.Forms.PropertySort initialSortType) Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid.UpdateSelection()    Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid.RefreshProperties(bool clearCached)  Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid.Refresh(bool clearCached)    Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid.SelectedObjects.set(object[] value)  Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.PropertyBrowser.UpdatePropertyGrid()  Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.PropertyBrowser.UpdateSelection(bool updateGrid, bool updateComboBox) Unknown
Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll!Microsoft.VisualStudio.PropertyBrowser.PropertyBrowser.OnIdle(object sender, System.EventArgs e) Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(int grfidlef)    Unknown
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.ComponentManagerProxy.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(int grfidlef = -2)   Unknown

exception:

"Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'WebApplication' Key being added: 'WebApplication'"} System.Exception {System.ArgumentException}

Answer 1

I finally pinned down to the root cause of crash. If I delete obj and bin folder in my project, then publish profile will work. Maybe that's because I have some dll conflict warning when build my project?

I still not sure why this didn't happen in windows 8. Why it behaves differently in windows 8 and 10?

Answer 2

I've had this problem too, and the only way to solve it was to reinstall Visual Studio, or you can try first repairing the installation.

Answer 3

I have figured out that the problem is withing the .csproj file.

1. open the file in text editor (i.e. notepad++) and cut off the files section (ItemGroup elements) for after reference
2. save the file
3. open the project in vs2013 (I am not sure you need to reopen the vs2013 - but that's what I did).
4. Then close the project in vs2013.
5. paste back all the ItemGroup elements we just cut out
6. resave.
7. publish it again